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>The more you know about a subject, the more false reporting you will find related to that subject. This sounds like it should be a named law. Like Amdahl's La
by javajosh 6y ago
>The more you know about a subject, the more false reporting you will find related to that subject.
This sounds like it should be a named law. Like Amdahl's Law or Moore's Law, or Sturgeon's Law!
- antiframe 6y agoI've heard it called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, but not sure if it's caught on. > Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. > - Michael Crichton, Why Speculate (26 April 2002) From Wikiquote Murray Gell-Mann https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann Edit: Remove markdown formatting.